Action Alerts
· Contact Congress and organize local events in the ongoing effort to: End the war on Iran, Stop sending weapons to Israel, Get ICE out of our communities, and Strip the merger of the US and Israeli military industries from the National Defense Authorization Act (section 219). here & here
· US citizen and Birzeit University honors student Sama Safi was arrested on 6/2 by Israeli forces at her family home in the West Bank and continues to be held without charges. Write your Congresspeople to demand her release: here
· The Institute for Palestine Studies is launching an online series examining the present and future of health in Palestine. Their upcoming Disability, Rehab & Survival with Dr. Khalil Khalidy (Al-Aqsa Hospital), Dr. Doroteo Gucciardo (GLIA), and Dr. Khamis Elessi (Islamic University of Gaza). 8/26, 11am Eastern/ 8am Pacific. Register here:
· JVP Health Advisory Council’s webinar: De-Healthification: Israel’s Engineered Collapse of Palestinian Life with Layth Malhis, Institute for Palestine Studies. 9/27, 11AM Eastern, 8AM Pacific, Registration coming soon.
· JVP Health Advisory Council webinar with Amy Hagopian and Mary Bassett discussing their struggle and censorship by academic institutions, coming November 22, stay tuned for more details.
· Did you miss our webinar: Palantir in Our Hospitals: How the company powering the Gaza genocide and ICE surveillance is expanding into healthcare, with AFSC, No Palantir in the NHS Campaign, and National Nurses United? Watch the recording here.
· Not planning to go to the World Medical Association General Assembly in Rotterdam on 10/8-10? You can still join the over 5000 people who have signed and shared the petition to Suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the WMA: petition Stay in the loop on WMA events by clicking here:
New Documentary
“American Doctor” tells how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded, with local medical staff risking their own lives--Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023. The film follows 3 US doctors as they volunteer in in Gaza hospitals: doctors Feroze Sidhwa, Thaer Ahmad, and Mark Perlmutter, all collaborators with JVP’s Health Advisory Council. Watch the Democracy Now! report here.
Reports
This protection brief examines the ongoing collapse of the healthcare system in the Gaza Strip and its far-reaching protection consequences for the civilian population following the outbreak of hostilities on 10/7/23. Widespread destruction of health infrastructure, repeated displacement, restrictions on humanitarian access, and severe shortages of medicines, medical supplies, fuel, and healthcare personnel have left health services unable to meet even basic needs. The deterioration of water, sanitation, nutrition, and other essential public health systems has further intensified health risks, particularly for women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, and people living with chronic illnesses. Despite continued efforts by UNRWA and other humanitarian actors to sustain essential health services, humanitarian assistance cannot replace a collapsed health system. UNRWA
GAZA
8/8, Israel formally rejected Trump’s 15-point “roadmap” (accepted by Hamas) and stepped up attacks on Gaza.
Palestinian deaths since 10/7/23: 73,400 killed and 174,312 injured.
Palestinian deaths since the 10/11 “ceasefire:” 1,266 killed, 4,200 wounded
More than 2.15 million Palestinians (509,393 families) are displaced across Gaza and living in catastrophic conditions. Nearly 867,000 people (196,000 families) are in deteriorating makeshift tents without basic necessities.
For more info: OCHAOPT
Health & Hospitals
· So far this year, WHO has recorded 45 attacks on health care in Gaza. Most occurred during medical evacuation operations in Rafah where convoys were obstructed, delayed or searched, and, in some cases, patients or their companions were detained.
· 8/8, Palestinian families gathered in Gaza to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza’s medical system. They described watching their loved ones die from treatable illnesses as Israel blocks the entry of medicine and supplies and restricts patients from leaving for treatment. Gaza’s hospitals lack up to 70% of essential medical supplies. WHO says over 18,500 patients require medical evacuation from Gaza. (Dropsite)
· Since Israel destroyed Gaza’s only specialized cancer hospital, Dr. Saleh Sheikh al-Eid, head of oncology and hematology at Nasser Medical Complex, said 3-5 cancer patients die daily for lack of resources, up from 1-2 prior to the war. 17,000 cancer patients lack access to chemotherapy or advanced care; 5,000 are registered for treatment abroad but have not been permitted to leave. Specialists warn toxic materials from Israeli explosives may be accelerating cancer rates. (Dropsite)
· “I’ve been handed a death sentence, and my crime is being a cancer patient from Gaza. Israel’s genocide is destroying the health system in Gaza and the West Bank, leaving Palestinian cancer patients with few to no options for treatment. Zeteo
· Hospitals face an imminent oxygen-supply collapse, with most oxygen generation stations inoperable as Israel continues to block spare parts and maintenance equipment. The shortage puts critically ill or wounded patients at risk of death and severely affects 72 ICUs, 54 neonatal and premature-baby units, and 19 pediatric ICUs. (Dropsite)
· Miscarriages are surging in Gaza and births are declining. Last year a UN report found that Israel’s systemic attacks on women’s healthcare -- destruction of maternity wards and IVF clinic, and restrictions on essential supplies -- amounted to “genocidal acts... destroying in part the reproductive capacity of Palestinians in Gaza as a group.” (Guardian 8/8)
· The Palestinian Health Ministry recorded nearly 4,000 pregnancy losses in the 1st 6 months of 2026, reaching a peak of 920 in April. By comparison, there were 1,200 miscarriages in the 2nd half of 2025. Dr. Maher Farwana, an ob-gyn at Nasser Medical Complex: “this sharp and unprecedented increase demands an urgent independent scientific investigation into the effects of war, hunger, deprivation, displacement, and the collapse of the health system on pregnancy, motherhood, and the future of reproductive health in Gaza.” (972 Magazine)
· The Health Cluster’s Rehabilitation Task Force estimates that ¼ of those injured since October 2023 live with potentially life-changing injuries, such as amputations, spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries. Children account for 18% of amputations and 31% of spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries. No pediatric rehabilitation services are available in Gaza. No rehabilitation equipment for rehabilitation facilities entered Gaza between 5/2024 and 4/2026; current average waiting time for pending shipments of assistive products is 136 days. Overstretched rehabilitation services, combined with shortages of essential equipment, contribute to preventable secondary complications, further increasing the limited rehabilitation capacity. About 30% of inpatient beds in the remaining specialist rehabilitation services are occupied by patients with advanced pressure sores. Limited beds are driving early discharge, increasing risks of deterioration, loss of function and avoidable readmission.
Aid
· For the 3rd year, Gaza remained the world’s deadliest place for aid workers, with 186 killed by Israeli attacks (68% in aerial bombardments) in 2025 despite the October “ceasefire.” Globally, 350 humanitarian workers were killed in 2025, the second-highest annual toll on record, while 907 aid workers were victims of violence.
Displacement & Shelter
· 1.98 million Palestinians in Gaza (94% of the population) need shelter and basic household assistance, reports the Shelter Cluster and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). 2/3 of households live in tents or makeshift shelters, structures not designed for long-term use. More than half the households in tents have used the same tent for over a year, while more than half the tents and makeshift shelters are in poor or very poor condition. (Drop Site 8/20)
Food & Nutrition
· MSF Dr. James Smith described the “slow and cumulative effect of…manufactured deprivation” in Gaza to the UK’s Channel, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of essential goods into Gaza. Smith: “Every month, approximately 3,000 children are being admitted into acute malnutrition programs.” See his full interview here. (Dropsite)
· 8/18, a Palestinian girl died from severe malnutrition as Israel continues to restrict food and other necessities entering Gaza. Since the ceasefire began, Israel has allowed only 35.3% of the minimum agreed upon aid deliveries, averaging 212 trucks daily rather than the required 600. The IPC warns that 74,200 children require treatment for acute malnutrition through April 2027, including more than 11,400 severe cases. By the end of the year, nearly 1.9 million people could face acute food insecurity. (Electronic Intifada 8/19)
· 8/1-9, general food assistance was provided to 58,000 households (189,000 people) as part of the monthly distribution cycle. Each family received 3 parcels and 1 25-kilo bag of flour, covering minimum caloric needs.
· As of 8/6, 23 partners prepared 691,000 meals daily in 97 kitchens, delivering to 1,065 locations. Meal production has remained stable since late May, despite minor fluctuations.
· As of 10/10, 28 subsidized bakeries continued to produce approximately 100,000 2-kilo bread bundles daily. 75% is sold through 166 contracted retailers at a subsidized price of 3 NIS (US$0.93) per bundle; the remaining 25% is distributed free of charge to 300+ shelters and community sites. 10 private bakeries are receiving free fuel from partners to independently produce and distribute 53 metric tons of bread daily.
· Another round of animal fodder distribution to 2,200 livestock holders began in July. Each herder receives a 50-kilo bag of barley and a 50-kilo bag of concentrate feed.
Water & Sanitation
· Women in al-Deira camp, northwest of Gaza City, lack sanitary and accessible toilets, and suffer health problems as a result. The majority of people in the camp share 3 public toilets, which are simply holes in the ground lacking privacy, sanitation, and safety. Women describe holding their urine all night and not drinking water to avoid using the toilets. Several have developed kidney stones and other serious health problems, on top of the psychological toll of lacking access to toilets. (Electronic Intifada 8/10)
· For a personal view on this, Bleeding in Silence: We Are Not Numbers
· Weasels, rats, and other vermin are moving freely through tents, hospitals, and ruined neighborhoods. Rats spread disease, contaminate food supplies, and transform misery into something even more degrading. (The Nation 8/18)
· While humanitarian associations’ coverage of Gaza focuses on how to provide food, medicine, and shelter, another devastating consequence of wars is the loss of childhood itself. It is an unbelievable set of statistics that illustrate the systematic killing of childhood in Gaza and the erasure of new generations from Palestinian society. An estimated 105,000 to 110,000 children have been born in the Gaza Strip during the war — a new generation born alongside the immense number of children killed. Israel is not only preventing normal life but also restricting the entry of toys and a wide range of other goods into Gaza. Truthout
Israeli assaults
· UN Experts Warn of Israeli Escalation in Gaza After 160 Killed in July Alone. “They started doing this right after the ceasefire, and there have been incendiary bombs every day. Small drones come out and drop incendiary materials, [white] phosphorus shells are fired at the woodlands, in addition to illumination flares that they drop during the daytime so the vegetation catches fire.” Truthout
· Before the genocide, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank had one of the highest literacy rates in the world, over 97% in 2020. For three years in a row, 700,000 children have been deprived of formal in-person schooling in Gaza, according to UNICEF. 98% of school buildings are damaged and over 93% (526 out of 564) require major rehabilitation or full reconstruction. Classrooms that remain usable have been converted into shelters. Israel has killed 20,000 school-age children and over 530 teachers, according to Monir Abu Zaiter, director of education in East Gaza. Tens of thousands have been wounded, many with life-changing injuries. (Drop Site 8/18)
WEST BANK, including EAST JERUSALEM
Israeli forces and settlers continue to escalate attacks on the occupied West Bank, with 504 reported attacks in the 2nd week of August, and 467 in the 3rd week, including the demolition of 75 homes and structures in a “relentless escalation of violence, dispossession, and destruction.”
· 8/19, Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Mohamed Awad at his home in Bitunia (Ramallah). Editor’s note: This update depends on his contributions and we join in the demand for his release. (WAFA).
· The slow ethnic cleansing of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village besieged by Israeli settlers: seven residents have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, including 17-year-old Fadi al-Na'san, shot while defending a neighbor's home from settlers. Mondoweiss
· In Hebron, Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of an elementary school and several homes in Masafer Yatta on 8/11. In the Bedouin community of Yatta, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian house and filled in a water well. (Drop Site 8/11)
· Agriculture in the northern West Bank could be on the verge of disappearing under the weight of Israeli land confiscation and the destruction of water wells. The Atouf area (Tubas), long known as the region’s “breadbasket,” has been targeted by settler attacks on its water lines. The settler raids complement the Israeli army’s ongoing infrastructure projects in the area, which have plowed through Palestinian farmlands and demolished wells. (Mondoweiss 8/18)
· Settler attacks have displaced 107 West Bank communities (5,900 people) since January 2023, reports Human Rights Watch. The Israeli military expelled another 32,000 from the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps in January 2025. Israeli authorities are “arming, funding, and granting impunity” to settlers responsible for attacks, which increasingly target Palestinians’ homes, land, livestock and access to water. The 2026 average of 6.6 settler attacks daily result in casualties or property damage, the highest rate recorded. 15 Palestinians (2 children) have been killed by settlers as of July 24. “The Israeli government and the settlers share the same goal: maximum land and minimum Palestinians.” (Drop Site 8/20)
· WHO data recorded 37 attacks on health care in July, compared to 8 in June and a monthly average of about 10 during the first half of 2026, bringing the year’s total to date to 98. Attacks affected 83 health transport vehicles and 11 health facilities, causing 33 injuries and 4 deaths. There were: 92 incidents of obstruction of health-care delivery; 66 uses of force against health care; 25 arrests or detention of health personnel or patients; 13 militarized searches of health personnel, facilities or transport. WHO identifies obstruction and detention at checkpoints, full closures during operations and requirements for “prior coordination” of ambulance movements among the factors impeding access to health care across the West Bank.
· PRCS spokesman Eid Dweikat said its ambulances are increasingly being delayed or forced to take lengthy detours to respond to emergencies, “affecting the speed with which PRCS can respond to people who need medical assistance.” In the first half of 2026, WHO documented 50 cases of delays in medical care in the West Bank. (+972 8/16)
· 2 Palestinian paramedics were injured when settlers attacked their ambulance, smashed its windows and sprayed the crew with pepper spray. 3 Palestinians were injured in a separate settler attack in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus. (Palestine Chronicle 8/8)
· Settlers and occupation forces carried out a new wave of attacks, raids, arrests, and demolitions across the occupied West Bank on 8/16-17 as settlers moved to establish another illegal outpost on Palestinian land. In one attack, 10 settlers near Bethlehem assaulted Dr. Majid Aliyan Dweikat, of Sur Bahir (Jerusalem), with stones and sticks, breaking his hand and smashing the windows of his vehicle. (Palestine Chronicle 8/17)
· Israeli military arrested Palestinian gynecologist Dr. Dima Amin at her home in Ramallah. She suffered a cardiac event after soldiers forcefully tightened her handcuffs, leaving marks on her wrists that remained visible for days. (Haaretz 8/22)
· 8/17, Israeli settlers attacked a Red Crescent ambulance transporting a patient in Hebron, PRCS said. Israeli soldiers were present but did not intervene to stop the attack.
· In Qusra (Nablus), Israeli settlers continue their siege of the home of the Palestinian-American Abu Rida family, encircling the property, preventing entry or exit, blocking the road, attempting to enter the home, attacking municipal workers attempting water and electricity repairs, and impeding the delivery of aid. Settlers have attempted to seize the property for months, often with the backing of the Israeli military. Even the Palestinian-hating US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has condemned the settlers’ actions. (Reuters, Drop Site 8/12&18)
· Israel opened bidding for the construction of 1,234 housing units in the E1 area east of Jerusalem, advancing a settlement project that would disrupt Palestinian territorial contiguity between Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Bethlehem. The units are part of 3,400 homes approved last August. The UN Secretary-General expressed “deep alarm”; and the UK demanded the Israeli government retract the tender. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar rejected the UK’s condemnation, claiming Jewish people have a right to live “throughout the Land of Israel.” (Drop Site 8/20)
· Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) condemned the Israeli military’s decision to close cases involving the killings of its staff in the West Bank. Palestinian healthcare workers are increasingly being attacked and detained amid escalating violence across the West Bank. Medical Aid for Palestinians said that in the past week, Palestinian nurse Mohammad Nabil Al-Mutawir, 26,was shot and partially paralyzed in a settler attack in Sa’ir, north of Hebron while standing outside the house he was building in preparation for his upcoming marriage when an Israeli settler shot him in the back with a bullet that completely severed his spinal cord. 8/16, around 10 Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian doctor in Jannatah, east of Bethlehem. They beat him with stones and sticks, smashed his car windows, and broke his hand, according to MAP. (Palestine Chronicle 8/21)
· Israel’s financial chokehold has hit every part of the territory’s dealings, spurring worries about whether the Palestinian Authority can remain solvent. The cuts in spending on salaries and public services because of the sharp fall in revenues have been felt acutely in sectors such as health care, with pharmacies routinely running out of medicines as the government allocates less money to buy them. The budget cuts have also forced clinics to open only a few days a week and hospitals to operate with fewer doctors and nurses. New York Times
LEBANON
Lebanon’s MoH says Israeli attacks have killed 4,333+ and wounded 12,250+ since 3/2.
Despite the “ceasefire,” Israel continues to use planes, artillery and drones to destroy housing, local government structures, and burn fields and orchards throughout southern Lebanon.
· 8/11, using the “double tap” method developed in Gaza, a drone strike in Nabatieh wounded 2 people. Israel struck a 2nd time when an Al-Rissala Association ambulance arrived to assist the wounded.
· Israel has dropped incendiary materials from drones and fired white phosphorus and flares into woodlands nearly every day since the 6/17 “ceasefire”. Civil defense chief Hussein Fakih estimated fires have affected 30-40% of land near the frontline. Conservationist Hisham Younes says the campaign is “ecocide,” designed to make the land uninhabitable. (Drop Site 8/13)
· 8/13, Human Rights Watch called on the UN Security Council to delay the United Nation’s Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) planned withdrawal from southern Lebanon and ensure a robust international force remains to protect civilians. HRW said the security situation “has dramatically worsened” since Israel launched this war in March, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and occupying large areas of southern Lebanon. “Pulling the plug on UNIFIL without a robust international force in place would effectively abandon millions of Lebanese civilians to an uncertain and potentially disastrous fate,” said HRW’s UN director. (Drop Site 8/14)
· Israeli drone strike that killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and injured her colleague was a war crime, says Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and Legal Agenda. Their investigations show that Israel deliberately attacked them knowing they were civilians. (Guardian 8/19)
Israel
· 22 of 24 activists interviewed by the New York Times described physical assaults or injuries following Israel’s interception of the latest Gaza-bound flotilla. Medical records documented fractured ribs and vertebrae, a broken coccyx, a firearm wound, and a collapsed lung among released activists. Several detainees described beatings inside darkened shipping containers. An Australian activist was raped. (Palestine Chronicle 8/9, New York Times)
· Israel is holding the bodies of around 1,700 Palestinians for future bargaining purposes, despite no Israelis currently being held hostage by Palestinians. The vast majority of the remains are of Palestinians who participated in the 10/7 attack, but some are of non-involved Palestinians and 13 are Israeli citizens. (Drop Site 8/11)
· Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben G’vir has turned the treatment of Palestinian detainees into an election campaign message, releasing detention facility footage in which he boasts: “This is how we treat Israel’s enemies: you’re not going to get any more food. …This isn’t a hotel—you’re going to die. It’s not worth fighting against Israel; you don’t stir any pity in me.” (Palestine Chronicle 8/11)
· Itamar Ben-Gvir has devoted himself to ensuring that “the conditions of detention” become “part of the punishment for Palestinians.” Before 10/7, this meant a rise in solitary confinement and beatings, the reduction of rations, and the denial of healthcare. Afterward, these conditions worsened precipitously as Israel mobilized wartime emergency measures to swell its prison population while shielding from scrutiny what happened behind bars. Political theorist Shai Gortler: “The logic of the Israeli carceral system is now one of starvation, beatings, killings.” (Drop Site 8/18)
· After helping direct artillery fire that claimed civilian lives in Gaza, former Israeli combat medic Yael is struggling with debilitating trauma and remorse. Her long wait for treatment highlights the military's failure to care for soldiers scarred by war. Yael dreams of being a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit, dedicating her life to newborns fighting to survive. "I realized I want to help as many people as possible," she explains, "to atone for everything I did, for all the dead babies." (Haaretz 8/8)
· Israel’s military admitted for the first time that its soldiers opened fire on a car carrying 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab, killing her and her entire family, as well as Palestine Red Crescent Society medics dispatched to rescue them. In Gaza City, Hind Rajab’s grandmother rejected Israel’s claims that it had opened an investigation into the killing — the first criminal probe by Israel into the conduct of its troops in Gaza. Hind Rajab was named after her grandmother, who said: “We, as Hind Rajab’s family, do not trust the judiciary of the state of Israel. We hope that justice will be delivered from the entire world. We appeal to the international justice system as a whole.” (Democracy Now 8/20)
United States
· Congressional bill HR 9680 aims to dismantle UNRWA, part of a coordinated campaign to eliminate the possibility of justice for Palestinian refugees. Titled “Replace UNRWA with Real Humanitarian Assistance Act,” it instructs the State Dept. (which stopped all funding to UNRW in 2018) to identify who takes over UNRWA’s work once UNRWA is gone. For more than 75 years, UNRWA has served as the institutional expression of an unresolved political reality: millions of Palestinians remain refugees because the circumstances that displaced them have never been resolved. (Mondoweiss 8/8)
· US imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan and Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, barring them from the US and from financial transactions. Washington’s confrontation with the ICC has intensified since the court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2024. (Palestine Chronicle 8/19)
US Universities
· Trump Officials Ignored Their Own University Investigators, Lawyer Says. A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn’t broken the law as they pressed them into deals. New York Times
· CMU - Carnegie Mellon University has launched a civil rights investigation into 10 activists for painting pro-Palestine messages on a campus “free speech fence.” 8 are barred from campus during the probe, despite CMU’s website which explains: “The Fence is an iconic piece of Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus… Serving as a student-centered space for free expression and community, the Fence has brought the CMU community together for more than 100 years.” (Mondoweiss 8/16)
· Columbia – 5 Palestinian Americans (a professor, a former professor, a student, and 2 former students) filed a lawsuit against the school on 8/10, claiming it helped to foster a hostile and discriminatory environment on campus after the 10/7 Hamas attack. (NYT 8/12)
· Cornell - Cornell is reneging on its pledge to help 2 grad students avoid immigration detention by threatening to cut their funding if they don’t return to the US, where the Trump administration has targeted them for possible deportation over their participation in a pro-Palestine protest. Ewa Nizalowska, president of the Cornell graduate student union, denounced the policy as a “clear reversal. …We know that it’s no coincidence that Momodou and Amandla are the first two grads to be impacted by this policy change, as two grads who dared to speak out against Cornell’s complicity in the genocide in Palestine, as further exemplified by Cornell’s deal with Trump.” (Intercept 8/16)
· Harvard - 8/13, a federal judge in MA threw out a Trump administration lawsuit that portrayed protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a campaign of anti-Semitic terror against Jewish students at Harvard, granting Harvard’s motion to dismiss. Using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the administration sued to take back billions of dollars in grants, to cut Harvard off from future funding, to place it under an outside monitor, and require cooperation with police in arresting student protesters. (Electronic Intifada 8/18)
· Harvard, Brown and Columbia - Former Justice Department attorney Haley Van Erem filed a complaint claiming the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of antisemitism on campus. She said that the government’s probes into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were “an unlawful process designed to achieve predetermined political goals.” Brown University settled for $50 million. Columbia settled for $200 million. Harvard refused to settle, and a judge just threw out the case. (Democracy Now 8/20)
· Reed -agreed to a host of far-reaching institutional changes, including asserting that targeting Jewish Zionists will be considered discriminatory, in order to settle multiple federal antisemitism investigations. The settlement was announced by the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which jointly filed the complaint, under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination at any institution receiving federal funds. Jewish Telegraph Agency
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International
· Canadian activists with Arms Embargo Now picketed facilities from British Columbia to Newfoundland on 8/13, targeting more than 40 companies tied to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, including Ontario-based TTM Technologies, which has shipped millions of dollars in circuit boards for precision-strike munitions. The campaign has already pushed Montreal-based Apollo Microwaves to end its Elbit contracts and Scotiabank, once Elbit’s largest foreign shareholder, to divest its roughly $500 million stake. (Drop Site 8/13)
· Rajiv Menon, a prominent human rights lawyer in the UK has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte “Lottie” Head, one of four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as terrorists over their involvement in a 2024 protest and raid on an Israeli weapons factory. Their sentencing marked the first time a British judge issued terrorism sentencing enhancements on people who were not actually convicted of terrorism. An additional 21 currently jailed Palestine Action protesters could face similar sentences, which carry multiyear prison terms. The charges against Rajiv Menon are similarly unprecedented in British legal history. (Democracy Now 8/17)
· Australia summoned Israeli’s ambassador over the IOF's decision not to open a criminal investigation into a 2024 strike in Deir al-Balah that killed seven aid workers, including Australian national Zomi Frankcom. After an initial review, two officers were dismissed and three senior commanders reprimanded, but the IDF said that despite "failures" in assessing, that Hamas operatives were in the vehicles. "This decision falls far short of the accountability we expect," FM Penny Wong said, adding that "democracies seek, and accept higher standards. The Australian government will not stop pressing Israel for justice for Zomi and her colleagues."
Sources: OCHA-OPT, 972 Magazine, Democracy Now!, Dropsite News, Electronic Intifada, the Guardian, Haaretz, Intercept, Mondoweiss, Nation, New York Times, Palestine Chronicle, Reuters, WAFA, Zeteo, We Are Not Numbers, Jewish Telegraph Agency, Truthout
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